Leyland Kirby's music welcomed itself into my iTunes Library and settled itself amongst the other songs like an old friend. I can't seem to remember what led me to his music, so I'm assuming it found me instead. This isn't surprising, because the nature of the music wouldn't have it any other way. His The Caretaker project, particularly the album Persistent Repetition of Phrases (hopefully that link works and you can download it for yourself!), is so haunting and familiar and frightening and peaceful. To describe it much further would be to describe an out of body experience or past life regression. For PRP, Kirby manipulated old ballroom records from the 20s and 30s, but somehow these dusty half-present creeping tones remind us of something not a generation away; instead, something stitched into our hearts and somewhere behind our own minds. Delight, loss, whimsy, and burden are revealed. coexisting... waltzing together, even.
Kirby's other projects are just as oddly captivating. Purely sad are his original compositions under the name Leyland Kirby, and his V/VM project is a strange abrasive bastard form of sampled electronic pop.
That link doesn't work. I want this.
ReplyDeletei think i fixed the link for the download... check it out.
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